Suire v. Lafayette City-Parish Government

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “An issue is ‘moot’ where it ‘has been deprived of practical significance and made abstract or purely academic.’ ”
• ―An issue is ‗moot‘ where it ‗has been deprived of practical significance and made abstract or purely academic.‘‖
• adequate summary judgment proof of actual reliance on City’s representations to repair property damage resulting from construction project
• the focus is not on the intent to be bound but, instead, “whether a representation was made in such a manner that the promisor should have expected the promissee to rely upon it”
• “To establish detrimental reliance, a party must prove three ele- ments by a preponderance of the evidence: (1) a representation by conduct or word; (2) justi- fiable reliance; and (3) a change in position to one’s detriment because of the reliance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).